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Firefox is 5 Years Old This week - Thank You AOL

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Thank you Mitch Kapor.

Huh?

Yep, let us not rewrite history because I was there as an eyewitness.

Mitch Kapor to me is the person who pioneered the open-source movement and Firefox. He is a longtime friend (since 1981) when I first worked with him at Lotus 123.

Mitch was very convincing to me when we met up at the first D Conference sponsored by The Wall Street Journal in San Diego. He insisted that we at AOL had to liberate the code at Netscape. “Free, free - set it free, Ted!” he implored me. “Help us to do the right thing and see the big picture.” He was and is an evangelist!

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Jobs. Kapor. Gates.

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

1983: The Macintosh Software Dating Game.

And I was in that audience as a member of the Mac rollout team. Gosh, I am getting old. Check this out.